Frozen Tractor -21*C

Posted by Michael Soldan on December 13, 2005 at 17:53:11 from (24.235.41.226):

My friend phoned last night about 10 to say he had been blowing snow and thought he had run out of fuel. He put more fuel in the tank and couldn't get it to start. He asked me if I would stop around and put the battery charger on it and see if I could bleed the lines and get it going. It is a David Brown 1200. Well the first thing I did was put some methyl hydrate into the fuel tank. I tried the starter and it spun over but smoked a little and offered no more. I went to my place and chored and then took my magnetic block heater down and put it on the side of the block. About three hours later I tried and after some cranking thick white smoke started coming and then darker and darker and a few pops and she started to run on her own. I let it run for almost an hour, and went into town and got 5 gallons of winter diesel and put in it. I am sure he never ran out of fuel, I think it just gelled up, froze up and wouldn't go until I got some heat into the block. I told him to put a gallon of gasoline in with the diesel if it isn't winter diesel, that'll stop the gelling..anyway he ordered a tank of winter diesel from the supplier this aft....and confessing truly..I ran my tractor out of fuel on Saturday when I was cleaning out the barn..luckily the tractor was easy to get restarted when I dumped fuel in it. Sometimes we get in a hurry doing things and just forget..anyway I am glad I could help him out...Mike in Exeter Ontario

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